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[randomness]

Why is it that well-meaning people fail to understand when people have issues, even emotional landmines, about certain subjects, and still keep banging on about them.

Are they simply clueless? Do they not listen? Or is it that they say things so they can hear themselves talk? What?

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[dpolicar]

Nothing new to add to the above... sometimes it's cluelessness, sometimes it's compulsive sore-tooth-probing, sometimes it's fascination with the issue, sometimes it's dismissiveness (or resentment) of other people's limitations.

I will say, though -- as I think we've talked about -- that the experience of having traumatic/triggering issues that exceed one's handling capacity is not something that people who haven't experienced it can easily empathize with, even with the best will in the world.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

as I think we've talked about

Right! I'd forgotten about that particular conversation until you reminded me.